You might have said it earlier, but did you probe other LUNs on that 
device?

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Chris Rankin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a Sony CRXP-90MU USB 2.0 CDRW/DVD-ROM drive with a built-in Memory Stick 
> slot. The CD component seems to work OK, although Linux 2.4.20 never locates the 
> Memory Stick device. (I have posted about this before...)
> 
> I have made some progress in this matter since my last post. Today, I finally 
> laid my hands on a Win2000 laptop and saw what the device *should* look like to 
> the operating system. Apparently, the (Vendor, Product) pair (0x54c, 0xa7) 
> actually refers to the USB 2.0 ATA/ATAPI controller device itself. This 
> controller then supports two ATAPI devices: the CD burner at LUN 0 and the 
> Memory Stick at LUN 1. Without explicit support for this controller device, the 
> only thing that Linux finds is the CD device at LUN 0, and I'm guessing that I'm 
> lucky that it finds even that.
> 
> I have absolutely no idea what the underlying hardware for this ATA controller 
> device is, and I am *hoping* that Sony *bought* rather than designed a chipset 
> to build it because they have proved singularly unhelpful. Such "off the shelf" 
> controllers do seem to exist, e.g. SMSC sell such a beast:
> 
> http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheet.html
> 
> specifically the 97c201 and 97c202. Texas Instruments also seem to have 
> something called the TUSB6250, which looks similar.
> 
> I don't suppose that anyone out there happens to be experimenting with a driver 
> for either of these chipsets, please? No, I haven't taken my CRXP-90MU apart yet 
> and looked inside. I also have no idea where to even begin writing a driver of 
> my own: even just a chipset-detection routine. Could anyone out there help me 
> with that much, please?
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> 
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